War crimes

Courtney Hillebrecht’s research focuses on human rights and international law. She has authored a book examining the domestic processes of compliance with the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, arguing that compliance with international tribunals takes place at the nexus of international and domestic politics. Hillebrecht is Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Chair of the Political Science Department, and director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. She is the author of several books about international courts and international human rights tribunals and can discuss the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/21/ukraine-russia-icc-investigation/">implications of pursuing war crimes prosecutions</a> against Russia and President Vladimir Putin in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Dr. Patrice McMahon is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is also the Director of the University Honors Program and Dean’s Professor of Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses on humanitarian affairs, peace building, nongovernmental organizations, and U.S. foreign policy. Most recently, she has been researching Ukrainians in Poland. She is the author most recently of The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond (Cornell University Press, 2017) and is the co-author (with David Forsythe) of American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights and World Order (Routledge: 2017), among several other publications. McMahon received her PhD from Columbia University in New York; her MA from The George Washington University and her BA from The American University both in Washington, DC.

Bedross Der Matossian is a Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in Middle East History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Lecturer of Middle East History in the Faculty of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For the Spring quarter 2014 he was appointed as the Dumanian Visiting Professor in the University of Chicago. His areas of interest include ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history, and the history of Armenian Genocide. Currently he is the vice-chair of the Department of History. He is also the President of the Society for Armenian Studies. He serves on the Board of Directors of multiple international educational institutions and on the editorial board of multiple journals, the most prominent of which is the flagship journal of the field: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). He is also the series editor of Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World published by I.B.Tauris and Bloomsbury Press.